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People's Commune of Asase Lewa
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: "Subɔ Ameawo" "Serve the People"
Anthem: the Internationale
Capital and largest city	Edudzi Agyeman City
Official languages	Asalewan
Recognised national languages	Fon Gundaya Kabiye Twi
Recognised regional languages	Over 100 Pygmy languages
Ethnic groups (2020)	41.2% Gundaya 17.6% Akan 11.4% Kabye 10.1% Fon 9.8% Ewe 9.9% other
Demonym(s)	Asalewan
Government	Federal hybrid socialist council republic with party-state elements
• Presidium of the Section of the Workers' International	People
• Presidium of the People's Commune	People
Legislature	Supreme Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' Council
Independence from Insert Country Here
• Declaration of the Asalewan Revolution	September 2, 1918
• Independence	May 1, 1940
• Formation of the People's Commune	May 1, 1970
Population
• 2022 estimate	70,636,291
• 2021 census	69,420,396
GDP (PPP)	2022 estimate
• Total	$645.40 billion
• Per capita	$9,137
GDP (nominal)	2022 estimate
• Total	$208.45 billion
• Per capita	$2,951
Gini (2022)	14.5 low
HDI (2022)	0.762 high
Currency	Asalewan cedi (external) Work point (internal) (AC)
Driving side	the opposite of whatever my colonizer drives on
Calling code	+963
Internet TLD	.asl

Asase Lewa, officially the People's Commune of Asase Lewa, is a socialist middle-income country located in northern Bahia and Coius in Kylaris, bordering Tiwura to the south. The third-most populous country in Bahia after Yemet and Mabifia, the country has a population of 70 million, one-fifth of whom live in the capital and largest city of Edudzi Agyeman City.

Like the rest of Bahia, Asase Lewa is one of the oldest continuously-inhabited countries in the world. The country was largely governed according to the egalitarian, communalistic Sâretic system until the tenth and eleventh countries, when the Irfanic conquests of Bahia led to the development of the Houregic system, the first recognizable states, throughout the region. However, Asase Lewa itself largely avoided Irfanization and remained largely Fetishist; furthermore, modern, Houregic states did not develop in the Asalewan Highlands, where between one-fourth and one-third of the population lived; the Highlands instead saw the development of the ojeṣẹbun system, a modified version of Sâre. The division between the Asalewan Lowlands, which boasted exceptional agricultural fertility and whose inhabitants frequently fled to the Highlands to avoid state control and associated issues such as forced labor, and the Asalewan Highlands, avoiding state development and whose inhabitants frequently raided or invaded the Lowlands whenever the Highlands suffered from overpopulation, remained a prominent feature of Asalewan society until the twentieth century.

A center, albeit a fairly minor one, of the Bahian slave trade, the Asalewan Lowlands became a major exporter of the cash crop coffee, and later cocoa, sugar, and spices, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. During and after the Bahian collapse, the Lowlands and an increasingly depopulated foothills and fringe between the Lowlands and Highlands, were colonized during the Toubacterie in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Except in majority-Akan areas in northern Asase Lewa, the Toubacterie had a far more disruptive effect on Lowlander society than elsewhere in Bahia, as the colonial state reorganized Lowlander agriculture and economy for producing and exporting these cash crops under the Asalewan plantation system.

Asase Lewa saw far more radical anti-colonial movements, and achieved independence earlier, than other Bahian states. The socialist Asalewan Section of the Workers' International successfully waged the Asalewan Revolution, a twenty-year revolutionary war which led to Asase Lewa's independence in 1940 and one of the largest and most rapid reductions in economic inequality in human history. Over the next thirty years, the new state virtually ended the Highland-Lowland divide by ending the centuries-long Ojeṣẹbun system through collectivization, and established a command economy that made significant progress in economic development, healthcare, and education. However, it became increasingly authoritarian, with the Section of the Workers' International establishing a dominant and then single-party state, and encouraging its supporters to kill, or directly killing, dissidents and class enemies. In the 1960s, crisis triggered by the Sugar Crash and the collapse of the United Bahian Republic, which Asase Lewa was a member of, led Asalewan leader Edudzi Agyeman to launch the Protective-Corrective Revolution, which caused considerable chaos but eventually led to the establishment of multi-party democracy as a council republic, and the reorganization of the Asalewan economy under the framework of participatory economics and labor vouchers, supplemented by a large, generous welfare state and rationing-based subsidies for basic goods.

Commentators usually classify Asase Lewa as a hybrid regime and flawed, or Southern, democracy. Criticism of the socialist system is strictly prohibited and monitored by the Revolutionary Communist Construction Committees, and the Section, which no longer participates in elections, retains significant power in Asalean society, most prominently the power to veto candidates and de facto total control over foreign policy. Nevertheless, since the 1970s Asase Lewa has been classified as one of the most stable and democratic states in Bahia; elections are relatively free and fair and Asase Lewa is one of the few Bahian states to not experience a successful coup d'etat since decolonization. Furthermore, the country has—during both colonial and socialist rule—boasted one of the wealthiest, most productive, and most diversified economies in the region, metrics supplemented since the Asalewan Revolution by comparatively high rankings on key metrics of human development such as literacy, life expectancy, infant mortality, and malnutrition, and by one of the most egalitarian distributions of wealth in the world. A member of the Association for International Socialism, the country is closely aligned with other socialist countries, and is additionally a member of the Community of Nations, International Forum for Developing States, and Congress of Bahian States.

Notes

1.^ Portmanteau of ojeṣẹ, the Yoruba word for duty, and ẹbun, the Yoruba word for gift (writing down for myself to include in etymology should I create an article on this later on).